Nickname
Mineirão
“of Minas Gerais”
Mineirão is a given name from Gaulish, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mineirão goes back to a word meaning “of Minas Gerais.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Mineirão comes from Gaulish, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Gaulish *mēnā, from Proto-Celtic *meinis, from Proto-Indo-European *mēy(H)nis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mēy(H)-.
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Mineirão’s family of names
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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